Postcolonial Now

Part III The second half of “Eat, Pray, Love” shows a woman’s middle and ending journey to what is considered her spiritual therapy/quest t...

Throughout the semester, we have explored different ideas of what a home/homeland is. I can honestly say that I have never taken a class, i...

As we have discussed in class, Jasmine’s transformation and struggles with her identity seem to be the most prominent themes in Mukherjee’s ...

When I began reading Jasmine, my immediate reaction was that several of the characters (Jasmine and Du primarily) seemed lost, or possibly b...

As a class, we’ve spent almost an entire semester traveling through worlds both foreign and familiar; gathering a glance into the various pl...

I want to start off this final blog with the most surprising/important piece of information I have learned this year and have that lead into...

Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine tells of a girl growing up and constantly changing her identity in the process. Jasmine (or Jyoti or Jane), she...